Bible Verses About Strife

`And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand;

and he sent messengers before his face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for him,

and they did not receive him, because his face was going on to Jerusalem.

And his disciples James and John having seen, said, `Sir, wilt thou that we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?'

and having turned, he rebuked them, and said, `Ye have not known of what spirit ye are;

for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save;' and they went on to another village.

And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated; and house against house doth fall;

`Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided--three against two, and two against three;

a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison;

I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till even the last mite thou mayest give back.'

And there happened also a strife among them--who of them is accounted to be greater.

there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,

there came, therefore, a sharp contention, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas having taken Mark, did sail to Cyprus,

And he having spoken this, there came a dissension of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, and the crowd was divided,

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;